Prague Fatale Quotes

“The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you’re a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you’re not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“That’s the thing about morality lessons. Nobody ever learns anything. We were face-to-face with the past, but none of us seemed to understand that we were also face-to-face with an allegory of our future.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“palimpsest.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“I see a lot of bodies in my line of work. Sometimes it looks like I brush it off, but ‘fuck’ is what I still say to myself every time I see some poor bastard with a leaky hole in his chest. It helps to focus on the true profanity of what happened.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“officious.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“To be brave you first have to be scared. Take my word for it. Anything else is just foolhardy. And it’s not bravery that keeps people alive”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“Kuttner tried to smile”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“The breasts of women are a little hobby of mine; and while I know why I enjoy looking at them and touching them”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“Youth is no longer wasted on the young because it’s wasted on the war instead.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“it’s hard to look over the edge of the abyss without the abyss looking back into you.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale

“I don’t much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There’s something about Wagner that’s just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman’s singing a song.”
― Philip Kerr, Prague Fatale